Welcome to San Francisco and the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association! President Patricia Hill Collins and the members of the 2009 Program Committee invite you to enjoy the widely varied intellectual fare on the program and explore the complex urban diversity of this exciting international destination.
Program Changes
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8:
Session 17. The paper by Stoyan V. Sgourev has been cancelled.Session 31. Table 8. The paper by Andreea Gorbatai has been cancelled.
Session 46. Table 13. The paper by Nafisa Halim has been cancelled.
Session 134 Table 5. The paper by Robert Kleidman has been cancelled; he will also no longer serve as presider.
Table 24. The paper by Thomas Ponniah has been cancelled. Session 140 Table 6. The paper by Megan Marie Holland has been cancelled.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9:
Session 175 Susan Eaton will no longer serve as discussant; Jenny Stuber (University of North Florida) will serve as discussant.Session 211 Elijah Anderson will no longer serve as discussant. Waverly Duck (Yale University) will serve as discussant.
Session 228 The paper, “Engaged, Embedded, Enjoined: Science and Technology Studies in the National Science Foundation”, by Edward Hackett (Arizona State University) and Diana Rhoten (Social Science Research Council) has been added to the session.
Session 244 Table 4. “Family Influences on Asian American Achievement in Higher Education” by Lynne Taguchi (University of Washington) has been added to the table.
Table 2. “Generational Differentials in Socioeconomic Attainments among Asian Americans and Non- Hispanic Whites” by Isao Takei and Arthur Sakamoto, (University of Texas-Austin) has been moved to Table 4.
Table 4. “What's Behind the Model Minority Image? Examining Returns to Education for Chinese and Whites Using the ACS” by Ying Wang (University of Maryland-College Park) has been added to the table.
Table 15. Myeongjae Yeo’s affiliation is State University of New York-Albany.
Session 247 Table 5. The paper by Karen A. Snedker has been cancelled.
Session 248 Table 2. The paper by Kyle Arnone has been cancelled.
Session 263 Cedric Herring will no longer appear on the panel.
Area Editors Training Meeting (12:30 - 2:10 pm) has been cancelled.
MONDAY, AUGUST 10:
Session 295 Orlando Patterson will no longer appear on the panel.Session 295 Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University) will serve on the panel.
Session 295 Adam Gomoran (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will serve as discussant.
Session 304 The paper by Raheel Dhattiwala has been cancelled.
Session 309 The paper by Elizabeth Weathersbee has been cancelled.
Session 327 Table 4. Debra Schleef will present, "Jumping Ship or Merely Crossing the Aisle? An Analysis of the Circulation of Elite Lawyers.”
Session 342 Table 5. The paper by Melissa Dawn Barnett has been cancelled.
Table 7. The paper by Maureen Ann Eger has been cancelled.
Table 23. The paper by James Defronzo has been cancelled.
Session 377 Margo Okazawa-Rey will no longer serve as presider; Julia Sudbury (Mills College) will serve as presider.
Session 377 Linda Evans will no longer appear on the panel; Manual LaFontaine (All of Us or None) will now appear on the panel.
Session 381 Joan Morris (University of Central Florida) will serve as a panelist.
Session 389 Linda K. George will no longer serve as discussant. Robert Hummer (University of Texas-Austin) will serve as discussant.
Session 412 Craig Calhoun is no longer on the panel; Jennifer Lena (Vanderbilt University) will serve on the panel.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 11:
Session 453 Christie Sennott will no longer serve as the presider. Nicole Angotti (University of Texas at Austin) will serve as presider. The paper by Anne W. Esacove has been cancelled. The paper by Susanne Yukping Choi has been cancelled. The paper,"Walking Corpses and Kindly Neighbors: Retrospective Accounts of AIDS Stigma in Western Uganda", by Amy Kaler (University of Alberta) has been added to the session.Session 468 Table 3. Susan M. Cunningham will co-present the paper, “Perceived Mattering to Family and Marijuana Use among Adolescents.”
Session 474 Eunhye Yoo’s affiliation should be listed as University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Session 509. Table 3. Eric Y. Liu (Baylor University) will present, “Fatalistic Volunteerism and Life Satisfaction in Post-socialist China” in the session.
Table 8. Scott Feld will no longer serve as presider; Michael O. Emerson (Rice University) will serve as presider.
Session 516 The paper by Allaine Cerwonka has been cancelled.
Session 528 Steven P. Martin (University of Maryland) will serve as discussant.
Session 538 Jennifer Sherman’s affiliation is Washington State University
Session 542 Piotr Konieczny’s paper is now titled, “Grand Social Experiment? Wikipedia as a Subject of Academic Interest.”
Session 552 Table 2. Judith E. Rosenstein’s affiliation is U.S. Naval Academy.
Session 553 Burcak Keskin-Kozat’s affiliation is Stanford University.
Exhibits
New Exhibitors (as of 7/30/09): Navajo Jewelry and Crafts (408); Proquest (402); The New York Press (616). Exhibitor Updates: Association Book Exhibit has moved to booths 601 & 603.Departmental Alumni Night
New participants (as of 7/30/09):University at Buffalo
University of California-Los Angeles
University of California-Santa Barbara
Duke University
University of Kansas
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Stony Brook University
Benefit Receptions
Minority Fellowship Program Benefit Reception, Sunday, August 9, 9:30 – 11:30 pmJust Desserts, the Teaching Enhancement Fund Benefit Reception, Monday, August 10, 9:30 – 11:00 pm
Reception tickets are available at On-Site Registration located in Grand Ballroom A at the Hilton San Francisco: $25 donor, $50 sponsor, $100 benefactor. Ticket sales will close at 1:00 pm on the day of each event.